Combined register and ottoman



(No Model.)

J. A. 8u A. L. GRAHAM 8v E. G. RANSCH.

l COMBINED REGISTER AND OTTOMAN. No. 254,867. Y A Patented Ma1.14,'1882.

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7 @Nieren STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. GRAHAM, AMELIA L. GRAHAM, AND EMILIE C. RANSOH, OF

. RED WING, MINNESOTA.

COMBINED REGISTER AND OTTOMAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,867, dated March 14, 1882. Application filed January 20, 18S2. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JOHN A. GRAHAM, AMELIA L. GRAHAM, and EMILIE C. RANscn, of Red Wing, in the county of Goodhue and State of Minnesota, have invented certain Improvements in Combined Register and Ottoman, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in an ottoman, stool, or other article of furniture adapted to be placed over a register-opening, and provided with doors or valves in its sides, whereby the delivery ot' heat into the apartment may be regulated, both as to quantity and as to direction.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a perspective view of an ottoman embodying these improvements; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the same.

It is well known that in heating dwellings by hot air considerable difficulty and annoyance arise from inability to direct the hot air to any desired portion ot' the room, or to change its direction, which, when the registers are placed in the door, is principally upward. In consequence of this upward movement, due both to the rarefaction of vthe air and to the direction of its entrance, muehot' the heat is wasted, and but little warm air remains or is delivered close to the floor, while in many instances, from one cause or another, it is impracticable to have the air enter the room elsewhere than through the floor.v

By ourinvention we are enabled to overcome in a great measure the difficulties mentioned,

and at thc same time provide a neat and useful article of furniture.

The invention is susceptible of considerable modification as to its embodiment, but consists essentially in providing the side walls of the lower portion ot' the article with doors, by which they may be completely closed, or which may be opened on any side to permit the escape of hot air which rises through the open base or bottom of the article.

In the drawings, A represents an ottoman or low seat closed, and preferably upholstered at the top', and sustained principally by cornerposts B, between which are arranged doors or valves G, each adapted to be opened or closed independently of the others, and provided with a latch, D, by which it maybe fastened either in an open or a closed position.' The latches D engage with keepers E on the framing of the ottoman or other article when the doors are closed, and with similar keepers or catches,.F, applied to depending arms or sup. ports G within the body ot' the ottoman when the doors are opened. i

Stops H limit the movement of the doors or valves O.

While the arrangement of doors or valves shown and described is preferred, it is obvious that other forms may be substituted-as, for instance, rolling slats, sliding or rotating plates, and other common forms. i

rlhe article is placed over the register-opening, and when it is desired to deliver the hot air in any particular direction the doors or valves at that side are opened; but if it is desired to distribute the heat generally through the room, all or any ofthe doors or valvesmay be opened. y

The article maybe made of any suitable materials and finished in any desired manner, though in practice the whole interior is preferably protected with sheet metal, which may advantageously be made to cover the cornerposts,and can be decorated to present a hand some and finished appearance.

It' preferred, the whole base may be made of cast metal, which may be made quite light A and ornamental.

We are aware that heat-detlectors have before been provided for use over register-openings; but we are not aware that any such detlectors have ever before been furnished with doors by which the heat could be completely shut ott' or permitted to escape in any desired direction; nor are we aware that such. deflectors have ever been adapted to serve the douhle purpose of a detlector and a seat.

We are also aware that a portable lamp-l stove, or cooking and heating device, has been provided with a removablel upholstered top which might be used as a seat when desired; but such device was wholly unadapted to the purposes of our invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed ismi 1. An ottoman or like article of furniture,

having an open base or bottom, and provided and stops H, substantially as shown and de- [a with doors iii its sides, whereby it is adapted scribed. to reeeiv'e and distribute heat l rom 2i register- JOHN A. GRAHAM. opening, as set forth. b I AMELIA L GRAHAM 2. The herein-described article of furniture EMILIF C 'RANSGH A, provided with doors or valves (Matches D, J and keepers E F, substantially as and for the Witnesses: purposes set forth. A. W.Y PRATT, 3. The ottoman A, provided with doors C A. P. PIERCE. 

